Fixed it.
States have been issuing real ids for years. This whole extension thing is to buy time until they can grant blanket citizenship to illegals. If the real id act were enforced now, it would bust 100s of thousands of illegals.
I have a passport, but that alone is not sufficient to get real ID in my state.
But anyone can get a drivers license and be voting eligible
(last time I checked)
This country is being run by the equivalent of modern day Keystone Cops.
Why does it matter? “At this point, what difference does it make?”
Earlier this year they were letting illegal aliens use their arrest warrants as proof of identification, to fly.
States have been issuing real ids for years, and yet they are 1-3 years behind as well and plus your reality of illegals getting a new free license to go anywhere.
Apparently, if this rule, re real ids was put into effect, 1 Jan 2023, it could cost the airlines $ millions of $’s in lost fares/daily because we don’t have these damn real licenses, and many of us will never get one.
Also, a lot of illegals would not be flying in nor out.
I've been real ID qualified 3 times, 3 different states. It helps LOTs in terms of convenience to have a US passport. One of the states, Colorado in the late 1990s, was even before the real ID law existed IIRC
In GA in the early 2000s, I had to get a GA drivers license. No problem for me, I had all the state documentation covered. Still took a 5 hour wait at the DMV. Jerks. When my number was close to being called, I moved to the front row of crappy plastic chairs. A DL applicant at the counter 10 ft in front of me went up with “minder” with him”. The DMV agent would ask a question or request a document and the minder would answer. Problem was the applicant had zero English, obviously illegal and the minder would start talking. The second time this happened, the DMV agent told the minder to shut up and if not she would call over the policeman to arrest her.
IMHO, the exact reason why some states dragged and still are dragging on implementing real ID is voting. Nothing else makes sense to me. It's not a big deal to me to prove your identity and citizenship. I'm proud of it.